In the contemporary context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and bio-sourced materials do not merely denote technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes.
Their significance lies not in the novelty of the terminology, but in their capacity to erode inherited models of modern design, shifting the architectural focus towards an active engagement with resources, their cycles, and material trajectories.
In this third issue of the Frugality series -a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda- component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials- challenge the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.
